Development of an educational program for increasing dementia nursing skills in a general hospital.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25463568
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: Aichi Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: AMAKI Nobuko 愛知県立大学, 看護学部, 講師 (40582581)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MOMOSE Yumiko 愛知県立大学, 看護学部, 教授 (20262735) ; FUJINO Ayumi 愛知県立大学, 看護学部, 講師 (00433227) ; KUNII YUKO 国立長寿医療研究センター, 在宅連携医療部, 研究員 (40582614)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 認知症看護 / 教育ニーズ / シミュレーション教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this project is to develop an educational program for improving practical skills in dementia care. A self-descriptive questionnaire survey on education needs was carried out on nursing administrators and nurses at a general hospital. Between 80-90% of the respondents answered that dementia nursing was necessary. The necessary education contents identified by nursing administrators and nurses were "a caring method of dementia", and "the clinical condition and symptoms of dementia". The nursing administrators considered that the "ethical problem of dementia care" was necessary education, while nurses expressed that education on "communication methods of dementia” was required. The survey showed that an educational program could provide an elementary knowledge of dementia using lectures and that greater knowledge could be obtained using role plays that included a simulated patient with dementia.

Free Research Field

高齢者看護